Is Alberta Going to Secede? -- Today's Ground News Blindspot

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Is Alberta Going to Secede? — Today’s Ground News Blindspot

https://www.narativ.org/p/breaking-pete-hegseth-lied-about?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=yvuxn&triedRedirect=true

Stay Free Alberta delivered more than three hundred thousand signatures to Elections Alberta. The threshold is met. A province-wide referendum on independence is now mandatory, with the earliest vote in October. That is the surface story. The buried story — the one Dean walked through on the show — is the operation underneath it.

David Parker, who took over the United Conservative Party and built “Take Back Alberta,” is the same political operator behind Tucker Carlson’s Alberta tour and the convoy network. His new vehicle, the Alberta Republican Party, has been working alongside U.S. figures including Pete Hoekstra and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Per the reporting Dean laid out on the show, half a billion U.S. dollars has been offered as a “transitionary loan” to deliver Alberta to the United States.

The disinformation pipeline was exposed this past week: more than forty YouTube channels and hundreds of social-media accounts run out of the Netherlands, paid by MAGA-aligned U.S. money, flooding Alberta with secession content. Inside that operation, the personal data of 2.9 million Albertans — names, addresses, banking information, voter rolls — was funneled into a piece of software called the Centurion app distributed through the Alberta Republican Party. It is now the largest privacy breach in Canadian history. The RCMP raided David Parker’s office and the UCP’s office. Premier Danielle Smith is, this same week, hosting a “Freedom Free Canada” symposium with Pete Hoekstra and Mike Pompeo on Canadian soil.

Sixteen percent of one province, foreign-funded, is trying to walk a hundred-percent of its oil out of the federation. Alberta is not seceding. The people running the play might be going to prison. The pattern is the play. Trump did more to break Canada in eighteen months than fifty years of separatist movements managed on their own.

[hlthe2b]

1. Damn. Wake up, Alberta. Don't let these a'holes manipulate you!

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. No

Which is the same conclusion your article draws.

The referendum is non binding, and separation couldn’t happen without the consent of the federal government and the First Nations, which would never happen.

I predict The Yes vote won’t even break 30%.

It’s just a giant shit-stirring waste of time and money.

Hopefully a bunch of treasonous assholes will go to prison and the ARP will be sued out of existence.

But most of all, this will hopefully mark the end of Smith’s reign and career.

[3Hotdogs]

3. It would be Alberta's Brexit - - looks good on paper but results in a shit-show.

[Spazito]

4. I am so tired of the hyping of this...

The media, mainstream and otherwise, love this story, it gets them clicks yet they, for the most part, leave out or minimize the facts that polls show this fringe group behind the push for separation has less than 30% support from Albertans.

It is not going to happen, this nonsense rears it's fringe head every now and then to only go down in flames every time.

[BlueWavePsych]

5. Why Alberta's separation from Canada is almost impossible

[thucythucy]

6. Granted that actual secession is well nigh impossible

I still wonder if the Canadian government might not have options for dealing with foreign actors attempting to buy or otherwise influence elections there, especially when done as surreptitiously as this.

You would hope that Canadians have learned from our example of letting foreign actors compromise our elections.